General Gayety
Online readers of Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper spotted an apparent show of brotherhood, a photo of a Christian leader and [...]
The Word Warriors website, a project of Wayne State University, aims to retrieve expressive English words from obscurity. Hoping to [...]
I spent an hour in the dentist’s chair yesterday, getting shots and enduring drills.
I’d rather do that again today than [...]
If you follow the news, you know that Jan. 1 was a big day in New Hampshire.
That’s the day recreational [...]
You’ve heard of Peking Man and Java Man. Now meet Mecklenburg Man.
This prehistoric specimen, Bill James, is a Mecklenburg County [...]
Meredith Baxter’s announcement that she is a lesbian has put a — you should excuse the expression — kink in [...]
It’s that time of year when we think about turkey. Or, in my case, turkeys. In honor of the season, [...]
My girlfriend Anne and I reached the point in our relationship where we wanted to make it official. Also, her [...]
People in the public eye who utter inanities about gays keep me busy. I regularly poke into the verbal and [...]
A soccer team in suburban Paris doesn’t play well with others.
The Creteil Bebel club refused to play a match against [...]
In his New York Times Magazine column called “The Ethicist,” Randy Cohen recently tackled a modern dilemma.
A mother wrote in [...]
You remember Mark Foley. How could you forget him? It was just three years ago that the Republican Congressman from [...]
In Utah it’s legal to fire someone for being gay. The state’s new governor has served notice he’ll change that [...]
I have a lot of respect for teachers. But not for two public high school teachers in Minnesota. I’d like [...]
I think we can call it official. Along with death and taxes, there’s something else we can always count on: [...]
At the recent Episcopal General Convention, Episcopalians effectively lifted their temporary ban on gay bishops. They also chose to begin [...]
Today [as I write this] is the Fourth of July. As fireworks boom outside in celebration of Independence Day, I’ve [...]
Fred Phelps came to town and I missed him. I could just spit.
To be precise, the Rev. Fred didn’t actually [...]
Stories about the two gay male penguins that are raising a chick in a German zoo have included quotes from [...]
It feels like a whole lot of nothing is happening in Washington to rid us of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” [...]